fortieths

“The reference at Thucydides 8.101.1 to coins of Chios called “fortieths” may also refer to a small denomination, but we lack other evidence to clarify this obscure term.”

Simon & Schuster: THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES

“It will hardly be said to reach us, the book with forty-man power in it, until it has been broken up into fortieths of itself.”

The Lost Art of Reading

“On one fortieth of the shares much higher interest was to be paid than on the other thirty-nine fortieths.”

The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4

“I did everything from weddings to fortieths to corporate dinners handling budgets as big as”

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“AH the villages in this vicinity belong to the bifhop of Tortofa, who claims and ex - ercifes a temporal dominion, appointing the magiftrates, and receiving three thirty - fevenths of their wheat, barley, and oil, with three-fortieths of their wine.”

Internet Archive: A journey through Spain in the years 1786 and 1787

“All the villages in tliis vicinity belong to the bifhop of Tortofa, who claims and ex - ercifcs a temporal dominion, appointing the magiftrates, and receiving three thirty - fevenths of their wheat, barley, and oil, with three-fortieths of their wine.”

Internet Archive: A journey through Spain in the years 1786 and 1787;

“Thucydides’ word for these “pieces of money” is tessarakontas, literally, “a fortieth”; but scholars are not sure what these were “fortieths” of, or what three of them amounted to.”

Simon & Schuster: THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES

“Then he found out about "voting" and "non-voting; the shares coming to him were eighteen-fortieths of the voting shares; the remainder was split between relatives and non-relatives.”

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